Stargrace

Settling In

I’ve been working on completing the story campaigns for The War Within on my 80 paladin, and then I decided to create 1 of each class for future adventures, especially since timewalking is going on and I’m pretty sure I’ll want to take advantage of that. The thing is, this new account doesn’t have allied races unlocked, so that is something I will absolutely want to do – eventually. Timewalking this week is Draenor, which I am not a huge fan of. I completed 5 on the paladin and I’ve been leveling up the hunter through them since she was already level 73. That will leave me with 2 level 80 characters, which I’m pretty excited about. I haven’t picked professions yet, but I’d like to ideally have 4 level 80 characters, and that covers all professions.

Right now at the time of this post I’m at 31k gold, which is a respectable amount considering I’ve only been playing for two days. I’m hoping to eventually earn enough gold to cover my professions / recipes / repairs and maybe even a monthly token, though at the moment I am using my NA account to cover that.

I am delighted that I have finally made the change. Not because I don’t enjoy NA, I do, but I tend to play EU hours and when it comes to looking for groups, that shows. Now as I queue in the middle of the day (for NA) there are tons of people around, because it’s usually late afternoon / evening for EU. That was the main deciding factor in making the switch, and while it IS difficult to start over from scratch, I also see a lot of lovely benefits. Plus I get to group up with all my EU friends. Ideally there would be no separation between NA / EU servers, but that’s where we’re at, so I’m making due.

In any case, it’s nice to be back in WoW, it’s comfortable, and I have so much to do before player housing goes live.

Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

If You Could Start Over – Would You?

In most cases, and even in this specific case that I want to talk about, I would not start over. In video games like World of Warcraft, accounts have a history. The game is old, and if you’ve been playing since the start, that’s a LOT of history.

For the past year or so I’ve been contemplating starting over on the EU servers. I am NA, but the time that I play is much better suited to EU, and I thought perhaps I’d have an easier time looking for groups, or guilds. Plus I have a lot of EU friends who play, and wouldn’t it be great to do some delves or some timewalking together.

So I started up a EU account, on a brand new bnet (this part doesn’t matter, because nothing is shared across regions anyway). With timewalking going on leveling is VERY fast, and before I knew it I had an 80 paladin. The problem is that I have not done The War Within story which means I don’t have the weekly quests available (yet).

Working through those quests when I’ve already done them over on NA (plus all the other goodies I have on NA) is difficult but I know if I just stick it out and get these chores done, I’ll feel much better about things.

Plus, doesn’t it make for good stories? While I’m at it, let’s talk gold. I have zero, or at least I started with zero. How much can I earn when I’m starting over from scratch, only using a single character, and on a new region with no materials at all?

I suppose we’ll see!

Gold at the time of this post: 9,270g

Mount #487 – Forsaken’s Grotesque Charger

The trading post rewards this month included a lot of transmog that I just absolutely adore, AND this mount, the Forsaken’s Grotesque Charger. There’s also a version of it for sale in purple from the trading post, which I picked up (of course). I think it’s really pretty, and while I do tend to stick to my usual mounts, I’m sure I’ll be using it here and there.

Gold Making – Week 27 / 2025

It’s a slow period in World of Warcraft right now, at least as far as my sales are concerned. That’s not a bad thing, the market ebbs and flows and I know that this slower portion will eventually turn around to some bigger sales eventually. I’m currently posting around 100-150 items across 20 different North American servers. It includes a mixture of full/medium/low servers, and is mostly transmog, pets, and recipes. I rarely ever (ie: never) deal in current-tier sales, which I know is where the bigger money is at, but I’m nothing if not patient and consistent.

A Weekend Filled with Progress

There’s so many events going on in World of Warcraft at the moment that I was almost paralyzed with indecision over what to work on first – but I did get a LOT done, and I’m quite happy with the progress I made.

First up – I did install Classic Catalysm, and I created a Pandarean Monk to complete the Mists of Pandaria pre-event that rewards you with a mount in the regular version of the game. This was INCREDIBLY painful! It took hours, and was nothing but a reminder of why I play retail and NOT classic. I died more doing that starter (I also made the mistake of going tank, I had 2 skills I could use the whole time, ouch) than I have in the last year of retail, I think. I did manage to reach level 12, completed the starter island, picked a faction, and received my mount in retail. Worth it? Well, if you enjoy collecting things, yes.

Next – I took a good number of my level 80 characters through LFRaid and did their weekly chores, which includes professions. I also did timewalking on each of them, and the delve weekly. They have their belts, so I also upgraded them (the first week I did this I had no idea I was supposed to use the quest reward ON the belt to level it up, whoops).

Timewalking – It is the burning crusade, and I have done a LOT of timewalking this week. The goal was to level up roughly 1 character each day from 70-80 through timewalking. First, I leveled up a paladin on my EU account. I love playing my EU account but once I was 80 I realized I would have to do all of the story for The War Within to unlock the weekly quests, and honestly, I just wasn’t up for that so I swapped back to my NA account. I leveled up my shaman, death knight, rogue, and I’m currently working on a druid. I love timewalking. Not much to say about that.

With all of these new level 80 characters I’ve also been participating in the collector’s bounty event that Blizzard has going on right now. There are a lot of mounts I’m missing and of course I love to collect transmog as well. Having completed M+ in previous expansions I had some ports, like Freehold, that all 80 characters could use. So I would just port them to the dungeon and clear the zone in 2 minutes and hope I got the parrot that I’ve been trying to get for some time now.

On my 8th run – it dropped! I was so very excited. I’m not sure what other mounts I plan on going after, but I really think this collector’s bounty is a neat idea. I’ve also picked up a few addons for it that easily track what I’m missing and where I need to go for them. Of course as always, travel is the longest part. Especially since I’m running multiple characters all over the place.

Anyway, I’ll get back to gold making posts soon – for now, I’m just having a lot of fun playing the game. Happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!